Middle English

1. What is the main feature of Middle English?

a) English changes constantly.
b) English is used in administration.
c) English adopts many borrowings.
d) English is spoken at the court.

2. What type of French was spoken in England?

a) Burgundian
b) Anglo-Norman
c) Norman
d) Anglo-Saxon

3. What language did common people speak in England in the Middle

Ages?
a) Old English
b) Latin
c) Middle English
d) French

4. What helped English language to survive during and after Middle

English when compared with Celtic?
a) Body of literature
b) Body of literature and oral tradition
c) Body of literature and used by the Church
d) Oral tradition and language for education

5. What language was spoken at the English Court in the Middle Ages?
a) Old English
b) Latin
c) Middle English
d) French

6. Who fought the Hundred Years War?

a) England and Norway
b) England and France
c) The Normans and the Anglo-Saxons
d) The Geats and the Danes
7. Old English literature continues to flourish after the Norman
Conquest.
a) True
b) False

8. Middle English is considered a dark age because of…

a) The Black Death
b) The Hundred Years War
c) The absence of written English
d) The Peasant´s Revolt

9. The "-en" plural of OE was replaced by "-s" in Middle English.

a) True
b) False

10. There are no spelling conventions in Middle English. Words are

spelled simply the way they sound.
a) True
b) False